IBM quarterly storage HW revenues continue declining
IBM's quarterly storage hardware revenues have continued their long term decline. In the first 2021 quarter earnings report the company disclosed that “Power and Storage Systems declined,” with Power...
Dell PowerStore gets more with hot entry-level box
Dell Technologies has announced a PowerStore 500 entry-level system and updated PowerStore software with performance enhancements.
Jeff Boudreau, GM of Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions group, proclaimed today: “PowerStore is the...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
NetApp moves HQ to diaphanous building in San Jose
NetApp is moving its headquarters a few miles south from Sunnyvale CA to central San Jose. The company is sub-leasing 700 Santana Row from Splunk. and new HQ...
Ionir frees data from its location trap
Profile Last month Blocks & Files interviewed Ionir marketing head Kirby Wadsworth and CEO Jacob Cherian to find out more about this storage startup.
Ionir stores block data...
Storage product comparisons on the rack
Analysis. Comparing the performance of storage products is bedevilled by the lack of benchmark testing for the three main storage storage access methods; blocks, files and objects. There are...
VAST Data exits hardware business, pivots to software subscriptions
VAST Data, the high performance storage startup, is to stop selling its own hardware. It will concentrate instead on selling software on a subscription basis, and will certify...
StorMagic branches out into digital asset management
StorMagic has bought the assets of SoleraTec, a small California video storage company - its second acquisition in 12 months.
Update: Hans O'Sullivan comments added. April 1, 2021.
The virtual SAN...
Silk: NetApp is slower than us on AWS
Silk, the storage array software vendor, claims its AWS numbers for IOPS, latency and bandwidth are superior to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance on the public cloud.
Derek Swanson, Silk...
Exclusive: Datera has gone bust
Datera, the high-end storage software startup, has gone into liquidation. All of the company's assets are being transferred to the assignee of the creditors, according to a letter dated...
Hello Azure. Pure Cloud Block Store is here
Pure Storage has made its Cloud Block Store available on the Azure Marketplace.
Cloud Block Store is the cloudified version of Purity OS, the operating system that runs on the...
ATTO re-invents the RAM Disk with block storage device
ATTO is prepping new generation RAM disk technology in the shape of its SiliconDisk storage appliance. “This is not addressable memory. This is storage. It's a block storage device,”...